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Authentic. Unfiltered. Fearless.Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:51:02 +0000en-UShourly1Charles Krauthammer seems to think Steve Bannon’s fate will be same as that of Anthony Scaramuccihttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/charles-krauthammer-thinks-steve-bannons-fate-will-be-the-same-as-that-of-anthony-scaramucci/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/charles-krauthammer-thinks-steve-bannons-fate-will-be-the-same-as-that-of-anthony-scaramucci/#commentsFri, 18 Aug 2017 01:05:13 +0000/?p=1381423Charles Krauthammer during the Thursday airing of “Special Report With Bret Baier” claimed that he felt White House chief strategist Steve Bannon “Scaramucci-ed” himself after giving a wide-ranging interview to American Prospect.

Bannon in the interview undermined President Donald Trump’s North Korean rhetoric, and claimed that there’s “no military solution” to the conflict with the country. He also excoriated white nationalists, which he called “clowns,” “losers,” and “fringe elements.”

After his abrupt interview went viral, it was reported, however, that Bannon did not think his comments were being recorded, or had been on the record at all.

Fox News contributor Krauthammer addressed Bannon’s interview and compared it to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s explosive — and exposing — interview with the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, which was said to have a part in his ouster.

Krauthammer on Thursday claimed that he believed Bannon’s actions, however, were not part of a greater plan to distract the country from the president’s “bad week,” and could be extremely damning to his reportedly tenuous relationship with Trump instead.

“I think Bannon just got Scaramucci-ed,” Krauthammer told his fellow panelists. “Actually, he was self-Scaramuccied. It’s kind of like a Japanese version of it where you … actually impale yourself.”

“This was completely unnecessary. I suspect he thought he was speaking with somebody that would not publish this. But part of the reason that it is so inexplicable, and it … can’t be a part of a larger strategy, is that on North Korea … he totally contradicted the president. He ridiculed his position,” Krauthammer said.

Krauthammer noted that Bannon’s apparent correlation of Trump and Kim Jong un as “amateurs blundering about” perhaps the most “damning part in terms of his standing with the president.”

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/charles-krauthammer-thinks-steve-bannons-fate-will-be-the-same-as-that-of-anthony-scaramucci/feed/26Wolf Blitzer made a very bizarre comparison to the Barcelona attack, and got torched for ithttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/wolf-blitzer-makes-the-most-bizarre-comparison-to-the-barcelona-attack/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/wolf-blitzer-makes-the-most-bizarre-comparison-to-the-barcelona-attack/#commentsFri, 18 Aug 2017 00:48:56 +0000/?p=1381428Viewers were astounded and confused at the bizarre comparison CNN’s Wolf Blitzer made during the cable network’s coverage of the terrible terrorist attack in Barcelona Thursday.

Jim Sciutto seemed to make the attempt to tie the attack in Barcelona to that in Charlottesville by white supremacist at an “alt-right” rally against left-wing counter-protesters.

“But the final point I would make, Wolf, is just this note,” Schiutto said, “that in light of the uproar of the last several days, 5 days apart you have a white supremacist in Charlottesville use a vehicle to kill, and here you have attackers at least following the modus operandi of terrorists, using vehicles apparently to kill as well.”

“Those shared tactics that should be alarming,” he concluded.

“There will be questions about copycats, there will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all,” Wolf responded, “at all a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, even though they may be different characters, different political ambitions.”

“They used the same killing device,” he explained, “a vehicle going at high speed going into a group, a large group of pedestrians.”

“And as local police are saying,” he added, “at least one person is now dead, 32 injured, many of them in critical condition, right now, they fully expect the death toll to go up.”

Some took to twitter to criticize Blitzer for offering that terrorists in Europe might have been somehow inspired by the white supremacist attack in Virginia.

CNN has been in a feud with the president, who calls it the epitome of “fake news,” while many journalists have used their platform on the network to attack Trump.

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/wolf-blitzer-makes-the-most-bizarre-comparison-to-the-barcelona-attack/feed/83Windex produces an ad that’s making everyone cry. See why now.http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/windex-produces-an-ad-thats-making-everyone-cry-see-why-now/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/windex-produces-an-ad-thats-making-everyone-cry-see-why-now/#commentsFri, 18 Aug 2017 00:15:11 +0000/?p=1381403Windex revealed a commercial spot earlier in August that’s gained viral status, and it revolves around children, parenting, and how quickly time passes by.

The ad, whose tagline reads, “What’s between us, connects us. Give Life a Sparkle,” features the bond between a father and a daughter throughout the years beginning at birth.

At the time of this writing, the ad campaign video has been viewed on Facebook over 2 million times, and based on comments on both Windex’s Facebook and YouTube pages, it resonated on a very positive, feel-good level with many people — especially parents.

See the ad spot below.

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/windex-produces-an-ad-thats-making-everyone-cry-see-why-now/feed/50Authorities say possible 2nd attack planned in Barcelonahttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/breaking-two-police-officers-run-over-at-security-point-in-barcelona/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/breaking-two-police-officers-run-over-at-security-point-in-barcelona/#commentsFri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:56 +0000/?p=1381406Two police officers were run over at a security point Thursday in Barcelona and received minor injuries. Early reports were unclear as to whether the incident was related to the horrible terror attack in Barcelona earlier Thursday.

Authorities found the driver of the car on the outskirts of Barcelona while a bomb disposal expert checked his vehicle.

The truck attack in Barcelona took the lives of 13 people with more than a hundred injured.

“The perpetrators of the Barcelona attack are soldiers of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls for targeting coalition states,” said the terror group through their news agency.

Police have arrested two men, one a Moroccan and another from Spain’s north African enclave, but the driver who fled on foot is still at large and being sought by authorities.

Later Thursday police performed an operation related to the attack and there were some reports of shots fired. Authorities told people to stay in their homes while officials said they might be under a second terror attack.

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/breaking-two-police-officers-run-over-at-security-point-in-barcelona/feed/39The Boston Red Sox may want to change the name of Yawkey Way. You already know why.http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/the-boston-red-sox-may-want-to-change-the-name-of-yawkey-way-you-already-know-why/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/the-boston-red-sox-may-want-to-change-the-name-of-yawkey-way-you-already-know-why/#commentsThu, 17 Aug 2017 23:25:29 +0000/?p=1381393The Boston Herald on Thursday reported that Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry will make an effort to change the name of Fenway Park’s Yawkey Way in a play to avoid being “haunted” by the racist legacy of Tom Yawkey.

The public Jersey Street extension outside of Fenway Park, named after Henry’s predecessor Yawkey, has long been a point of contention for many people.

Yawkey — a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame — was the owner of the Red Sox from 1933 to 1976, and was often criticized for being the last of the major league baseball teams to integrate black baseball players onto their team.

“I discussed this a number of times with the previous mayoral administration and they did not want to open what they saw as a can of worms,” Henry told the Herald via email. “There are a number of buildings and institutions that bear the same name. The sale of the Red Sox by John Harrington helped to fund a number of very good works in the city done by the Yawkey Foundation (we had no control over where any monies were spent). The Yawkey Foundation has done a lot of great things over the years that have nothing to do with our history.”

Henry claimed that if the ball were in his court, he would rename the street “David Ortiz Way” or “Big Papi Way” — another reference to David Ortiz, who retired in 2016.

“The Red Sox don’t control the naming or renaming of streets,” Henry said. “But for me, personally, the street name has always been a consistent reminder that it is our job to ensure the Red Sox are not just multi-cultural, but stand for as many of the right things in our community as we can — particularly in our African-American community and in the Dominican community that has embraced us so fully. The Red Sox Foundation and other organizations the Sox created such as Home Base have accomplished a lot over the last 15 years, but I am still haunted by what went on here a long time before we arrived.”

The Red Sox had a long, contentious history with integration, and despite eventually allowing men of color to join the team, refused to sign legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson prior to the Dodgers picking him up as the first black baseball player in the MLB.

Baseball itself was integrated in 1947, but the Red Sox didn’t sign their first African American player until 1959 — Pumpsie Green.

“We ought to be able to lead the effort and if others in the community favor a change, we would welcome it — particularly in light of the country’s current leadership stance with regard to intolerance,” Henry said about attempting to change the name of Yawkey Way.

Update: The original version of this post incorrectly named “Yankee Stadium.” It has been updated for accuracy.

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/the-boston-red-sox-may-want-to-change-the-name-of-yawkey-way-you-already-know-why/feed/41Rush Limbaugh has an interesting theory on why the GOP allows ‘leftists’ to tear America aparthttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/rush-limbaugh-has-an-interesting-theory-on-why-the-gop-allows-leftists-to-tear-america-apart/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/rush-limbaugh-has-an-interesting-theory-on-why-the-gop-allows-leftists-to-tear-america-apart/#commentsThu, 17 Aug 2017 23:05:58 +0000/?p=1381365Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, during the Thursday airing of his nationally syndicated radio show, claimed that the GOP is standing aside while “leftists” destroy America.

Limbaugh opened his segment with a direct shot to the media, in which he said, “The media is dividing this country and tearing it apart, and because of fear of the media, way too many on our side are unwilling to stop or even try to explain or oppose this.”

“Identity politics,” he continued, “which we have been focusing on in recent weeks — intensely in recent days — is the primary weapon being used to divide the country.”

Limbaugh noted that “black people and white people who were never slaves are fighting white people and others who were never Nazis over Confederate statues erected by Democrats,” and added that “somehow it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.”

The radio host condemned mainstream media outlets like CNN, which he claimed only spin stories, and speak out of the sides of their mouths, in order to sabotage the GOP, Republicans, conservatives, and the Trump administration.

About CNN, Limbaugh added, “The questions continue to be asked, and as such, the Republicans have no brand. They have no credibility. They can’t get anything in their agenda done because they won’t condemn whatever went on in Charlottesville, or because they wish to condemn also the violence perpetrated by Black Lives Matter and the anarchists and the Antifa people and so forth. Which, if you do that, CNN and others just jump right down your throat as though you’re a bigot and a racist for daring to point out that the violence everywhere in this country often starts by people on the left. And not only is the violence in this country often started by people on the left, they are the sole practitioners of the violence in 99% of protests.”

“Ninety-nine percent of protests you don’t even see the Republicans showing up,” Limbaugh said. “It’s a relatively new phenomenon that opposition to the left is showing up at protests. But it still isn’t mainstream Republicans showing up. They just don’t do it. And it isn’t mainstream conservatives showing up to protests. You disagree with the premise, 99% of all violent protests and riots in this country start and are engineered and practiced by the left?”

About the response to Trump’s remarks about the Charlottesville terror attack, Limbaugh said, “It was a genuine unhinged hysteria from all over the place, in the Drive-By Media and in Washington. And however the media goes is how the Republican Party is gonna go.”

Not to leave out the GOP, Limbaugh claimed that many Republicans jump ship on Trump anytime the mainstream media set their sights on the Trump administration.

“Media goes crazy on Trump, Republicans say, ‘Oh, God, there goes our brand. Oh, jeez. We’re never gonna win again.’ And they abandon Trump publicly,” he explained. “But in their case, they really do. They then go silent. And there isn’t any push-back against any of this, and the problem there is the push-back is not just against Trump.
What the media is doing is not just to Trump. They’re dividing the country, and they are smearing everybody who is not a left-winger or a Democrat or an activist. They’re smearing everybody. They’re smearing talk radio. They’re smearing people that voted for Trump. They are smearing elected Republicans, Republican staff, doesn’t matter where they are, everybody’s being smeared here.”

Limbaugh concluded with a suggestion of his own for the Republicans.

“If I may be bold here, if I may be helpful, Republicans, the idea here that you fear damage to your brand? You’re about 30 years late in realizing this, and the reason that you have ongoing fear of your brand is that for the first time it somebody’s fighting back against these allegations, and that’s what’s making you nervous,” he blasted. “You’ll note that it’s Donald Trump fighting back against all this that’s really what makes the Republicans nervous.”

“For 30 years, the Democrats have been able to call Republicans anything with impunity — racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, and add on to that — and there’s been never any pushback,” Limbaugh said. “All there is, is Republicans trying to kiss up to the media so that they individually are not included in the smear. Well, this is what pushing back looks like, just like this is what trying to strip power away from the establishment looks like.”

He added, “This is what it looks like when you push back. It was never gonna be easy, and it was never gonna be pretty. Somebody is trying to save the Republican brand by defending it against all of these smears: Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia. Too many Republicans have been conditioned to go along with the allegation and to ask for exemption from it.”

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/rush-limbaugh-has-an-interesting-theory-on-why-the-gop-allows-leftists-to-tear-america-apart/feed/95Breaking: Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s tech has been indicted on four countshttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/breaking-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-tech-has-been-indicted-on-four-counts/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/breaking-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-tech-has-been-indicted-on-four-counts/#commentsThu, 17 Aug 2017 22:37:32 +0000/?p=1381301The scandal surrounding former DNC Chair and current Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and her former computer tech intensified when Imran Awan was indicted on four counts Thursday.

Conservatives and Republicans have been following the case closely and speculated on the odd details so far known.

Amran was arrested by the FBI and Capitol Police as he tried to flee the country via a flight at Dulles International Airport. Thursday he was indicted on four counts including bank fraud, and giving a false statement to authorities.

His wife, Hina Alvi, was also included in the indictment.

Awan was at the center of a criminal probe over breaches of security at the House of Representatives. Even though news of his allegedly illegal acts had been publicized months before his arrest, Schultz only fired him after he was caught, fueling speculation that there was more to the story.

Some members of the Democratic National Committee have distanced themselves from Wasserman Schultz. Progressive DNC member Nikki Barnes was especially outspoken in her criticism of the former DNC chair.

“This adds to Debbie being rebranded as the Democrats’ disastrous destruction,” Barnes said. “Those of us on the DNC know we have to rebrand ourselves and earn the people’s trust. And unfortunately Debbie’s name does not scream trust.”

“It screams power,” she continued. “It screams limited access. It screams WikiLeaks now. DNC lawsuit. It screams a lot of negative things to the public. That’s not how we want to rebrand ourselves.”

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/breaking-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-tech-has-been-indicted-on-four-counts/feed/108Bill O’Reilly explains why Trump was correct in calling out ‘alt-right’ as well as ‘alt-left’http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/bill-oreilly-explains-why-trump-was-correct-in-calling-out-alt-right-as-well-as-alt-left/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/bill-oreilly-explains-why-trump-was-correct-in-calling-out-alt-right-as-well-as-alt-left/#commentsThu, 17 Aug 2017 22:15:50 +0000/?p=1381348Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly wrote a column for The Hill on Wednesday, and in it, he claimed that President Donald Trump was correct in calling out both the “alt-right” and the “alt-left,” and added that the media’s preoccupation with the tragedy is a ploy to further damage the Trump administration.

O’Reilly excoriated several media outlets in his op-ed, and noted that the only mistake Trump made was to inject “different opinions into a story where only one point of view is tolerated by the media: Nazi thugs are totally responsible for everything that happened in Charlottesville. Period. If you dissent then you are a Nazi sympathizer.”

The former Fox News host added that Trump’s response was directed at his base as well as the media, who he says have been fixated on white nationalists in recent months.

“To understand why the president is elongating the controversy,” O’Reilly explained, “you have to realize the depth of his resentment towards the activist left. From the beginning of his foray into politics, the hard left has demonized him in vicious ways. Entire news organizations are working to destroy him.” He noted that Trump and his supporters are “very, very angry” about the media’s portrayal of the administration.

O’Reilly continued:

“So the president vents by attacking ‘fake news’ and highlighting the sins of the left every chance he gets. For him, this is fair payback for what he has endured. He sees his opponents as dishonest, deserving of constant disparagement.

That’s what is happening in the Charlottesville situation. Mr. Trump knows that Nazi sympathizers are bad people but to him they are few in number and have little significance.”

O’Reilly added that it’s “the truth” that white supremacists egged on violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, but countered that by saying that “some radical leftist counter protesters wanted the same thing, knowing they would likely get a press pass for their violent actions.”

“That’s exactly what happened,” O’Reilly wrote. “For the Trump-hating left it worked out great. They confronted and exposed the vile Nazis, while also managing to bait the president into a controversy that has hurt him.”

O’Reilly concluded with a warning that the U.S. is entering the early phases of a civil war.

“In America there is, indeed, a civil war underway,” he said. “And the president along with his supporters will lose that war unless they fight it smarter. Anytime Nazis are involved you condemn them and walk away. That’s all. There will be time to expose the hard left fanatics down the road. It’s all about picking your spots. It’s all about an effective wartime strategy.”

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/bill-oreilly-explains-why-trump-was-correct-in-calling-out-alt-right-as-well-as-alt-left/feed/58Antifa thugs deface, try toppling what they take for Confederate statue—except it’s a Peace Monumenthttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/antifa-thugs-deface-try-toppling-what-they-take-for-confederate-statue-except-its-a-peace-monument/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/antifa-thugs-deface-try-toppling-what-they-take-for-confederate-statue-except-its-a-peace-monument/#commentsThu, 17 Aug 2017 21:56:14 +0000/?p=1381146Antifa — the left-wing band of mask-wearing thugs whose calling card is beating up and tossing urine and feces at detractors — has struck again.

Black-clad members of the militant group, their faces hidden by bandanas, climbed atop an Atlanta statue Sunday night — right on the heels of deadly demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia — proceeded to spray it with red paint and then attempted to tear it down using a chain.

Image source: WXIA-TV video screenshot

Antifa apparently took the statue in Piedmont Park for a Confederate memorial, several of which have come down on the heels of Charlottesville violence over a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue there.

Except the statue that Antifa members were trying to topple isn’t a Confederate statue.

Featuring an angel standing above a Confederate soldier, urging him to lay down his weapon, the sculpture is known as Peace Monument.

Image source: WXIA-TV video screenshot

Still several protesters chanted, “Tear it down. Tear it down,” WXIA-TV reported, adding that many in the crowd dispersed seeing the statue being defaced, apparently wanting no part of property destruction.

But just as the fun was revving into a higher gear, Atlanta Police Maj. Timothy Peek arrived and stood in front of the monument, police told WXIA, adding that demonstrators at that moment released the chain.

A protester was hurt by metal falling from the structure during the attempted tearing down, the paper added.

Image source: WXIA-TV video screenshot

More from WXIA:

The statue was commissioned in 1911 to symbolize efforts of reconciliation between the North and South after the Civil War. According to the state of Georgia, the monument was funded by the Old Guard Battalion of the Gate City Guard, which traces it heritage to 1854 when a group of private citizens formed a private militia to help the city keep law and order.

Police said in its Monday statement that they weren’t able to identify the culprits, who would face charges of criminal trespass, criminal damage to property or destruction of property.

Oh, and the olive branch the angel was holding? WXIA reported that it’s now broken.

Image source: WXIA-TV video screenshot

One man told WXIA that what happened to the Peace Monument is symbolic of what’s happening around the country — that while it represents peace, “it doesn’t seem like people want peace, like people are really against that.”

]]>http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/antifa-thugs-deface-try-toppling-what-they-take-for-confederate-statue-except-its-a-peace-monument/feed/110Watch: CNN commentator calls for the removal of Washington and Jefferson statueshttp://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/watch-cnn-commentator-calls-for-the-removal-of-washington-and-jefferson-statues/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/17/watch-cnn-commentator-calls-for-the-removal-of-washington-and-jefferson-statues/#commentsThu, 17 Aug 2017 21:41:42 +0000/?p=1381204Angela Rye, CNN political commentator and former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Thursday that she believes statues and monuments of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also need to be removed in addition to the Confederate monuments.

Rye explained that American history was taught incorrectly and celebrated only the “glories” of the country’s past but glossed over issues of slavery and racism, hence the negative reactions to Confederate monuments.

“George Washington was a slave owner, and we need to call slave owners out for what they are, whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not,” Rye said. “He wasn’t protecting my freedom. My ancestors weren’t deemed human beings to him.

“So to me, I don’t care if it’s a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue or a Robert E. Lee statue. They all need to come down,” she said.

Rye explained that Americans need to be re-educated and said it’s for the betterment of America’s future to avoid repeating history — and as she added, “We are very close to repeating it right now.”

Later in the discussion, Rye said, “Sometimes what it is is not acknowledging that this country was built upon a very violent past that resulted in death, and the raping, and the killing of my ancestors.”

“I’m not going to allow us to say it’s OK for a Robert E. Lee but not a George Washington [statue],” Rye said. “We need to call it what it is.”